Course Structure Course name: 2 WEEKS TO SPEAK – Intensive Thai conversation course Duration: 2 weeks / level; 5 hours / day; 5 days / week; Monday to Friday Teacher…
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Whether you are on Samui, in Thailand, or abroad, don’t miss the chance to learn Thai with our signature T.M.C. Learning Methods.
Our Conversation Thai language courses are broken down into 6 levels of 30 hours each. Classes usually meet 2 times per week for 2 hours each session. Reading Courses usually meet once a week for 2 hours each session.
Learning times are 9.00 – 11.00 am, 11.00 – 1.00 pm, and 2.00 – 4.00 pm Thai time.
Private one-to-one sessions can also be organized evening time or on weekends. If you are not on Samui but would like to study before coming to Thailand or keep on learning while back home check our online availability!
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Course 1: Discover Thai
〉 Greetings & Saying Farewell
〉 Introducing yourself and Others
〉 Pronouns & Words used to Address People
〉 Basic Sentence Structure• Asking & Answering Questions
〉 General Useful Phrases• Asking & Answering Questions About Work
〉 Phrases For Learning More Thai
〉 Ordering Food & Drinks
〉 Numbers
〉 Prepositions (in, on, at, etc)
〉 Asking about the Location of People, Landmarks & Items
〉 Using Verbs and Past, Present & Future Tenses
〉 Question terms; What? Which? Where? Would like to? How many? Can You?
〉 May I? Isn’t it?
〉 Common Expressions I
〉 Classifiers I
Course 2: Foundation
〉 Bargaining
〉 Taking Taxis & Buses
〉 Days / Dates / Times
〉 Prepositions (in front of, past. Opposite, etc)
〉 Numbers
〉 Asking & Answering questions about directions
〉 Using negative questions ( very common in Thai)
〉 Can you? II
〉 Asking for Permission or Items• Using Present Simple & Future Continuous
〉 Question Terms: Which? When? How long? What time? (3 different ways)
〉 Driving Instructions
〉 Common Expressions II
〉 Thai Proverbs
Course 3: Explorer Thai
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〉 Using “But & Also
〉 Family and Age
〉 Using Verb to be & Still & Not yet & Ever & Never
〉 Ordinal number (as the first child, second child, etc)
〉 Using Adverbs, (again, another time)
〉 Using “Could you please…….?”
〉 Using “For & To & This & That & Have to (must)”
〉 Using “thee in Thai – As I said that, she thinks that, I told…that, etc
〉 Using “How many + classifiers & many + Classifiers” which is very common in Thai.
〉 Using “Every & Each & Some” – every house, some houses, etc
〉 Using “If & Then & Same as & Because & Should & Together”
〉 Using “Gaw” – It is a linking word that gives a hypothetical, indirect, and understated meaning to the sentence
〉 Medical Problems
〉 Question Terms – Have you…..? Have you ever……? How is……? What is it like? Who? Why?
Course 4: Confidence Thai
〉 Comparative (as better than, more beautiful than, etc)
〉 Using “Not much different” (in Thai)
〉 Using “Not at all & Not very & Only & First time & Sometimes / Before etc”
〉 Using “More & Again & And & With and Since”
〉 Using “thee” – as who which is connecting word• Superlative : Most
〉 Using “na” – which has no meaning in English but we use it as “I assume you agree”
〉 Using “rawk” – this word is used with the negative and means “not as stated or not as what I thought”
〉 Verbs of Degree – as “not expensive & not expensive at all & not very expensive & little expensive, very expensive, too expensive, etc
〉 Using “when & whenever” – as connecting word to refer to the time in the past and any time
〉 Using “si” – Interjection for urging someone to do things etc
〉 Parts of the body & Can you? – (Physically)
〉 Thai Idioms & Phrases 2
〉 gwaa + gan? – Comparision
Course 5: Developing Details
〉 Using “then & after & To leave something for”
〉 Using “Increase & Decrease”
〉 Using “To bring & To take & To pick up & To drop off & To go get”
〉 The same & same time – there are two different words to use.
〉 Using “When with Seasons in Thai”
〉 Using “Or not and how to answer
〉 Using “hai” – as to give, to allow, for, to• Using “To want” – Both formal and common
〉 Using “Until”
〉 Since when?
〉 Relative Clause
〉 Reservation and Booking Conversations
〉 Thai Idioms & Phrases
Course 6: Almost Local
〉 Useful Telephone Conversations and more sentence structure
〉 Role Playing Dialogue
〉 Using “Since When…….?” & associated Vocabulary
〉 More advanced Question Structure
〉 Seasons of the year & how to discuss the weather
〉 Using Positive & Negative Statements
〉 Asking Negative Questions
〉 Explaining & Understanding “level of Quantifiers”
〉 How to show uncertainty or to downplay an answer
〉 Using “either or also and contradictory replies
〉 Using “repeated adjectives and verbs”
〉 Using “Altogether, including, throughout, until and the exceptions’
〉 Months of the year, public holidays & holiday culture
